Comics Studies Here and Now (Paperback, 1)

List of FiguresList of ContributorsMatt Madden’s Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A ForewordComic Studies Here and Now: An IntroductionPart I: Words, Pictures, and BordersChapter 1: A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the BreaksBen Novotny OwenChapter 2: In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O’NeillRichard Graham and Colin BeinekeChapter 3: It’s sorta wacky! But, different!: Scribbly,　Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical　ComicsAndrew J. KunkaChapter 4: How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics PublicationRobert Hulshof-SchmidtPart II Transmedial Forms Chapter 5: Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen TeiYamashita’s I HotelJennifer Glaser Chapter 6: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as ‘cineromanzo’Jan BaetensChapter 7: Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. YezbickPart III Institutions and MovementsChapter 8: Singapore cartoons in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s and 1960sLim Cheng TjuChapter 9: The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent ComicsKin Wai ChuChapter 10: Jir? Taniguchi: France’s MangakaBart Beaty 　Part IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading CommunitiesChapter 11: The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's　Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and　Nationalist BiasesEnrique Garcia Chapter 12: The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South AsiaTorsa GhosalChapter 13: Hands Across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women CartoonistsLeah MisemerChapter 14: Comics as Orientation DevicesKatherine Kelp-StebbinsChapter 15: Service Dogs, Code Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom Erica MasseyPart V Margins Transforming Centers Chapter 16: Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite’s CathySusan KirtelyChapter 17: Transnationality and Textual Mestizaje in Love and RocketsBrittany Tullis Chapter 18: Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon BallZachary Michael Lewis DeanChapter 19: From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan’s Comix after 9/11James J. DonahueC